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Oregon Inlet is an inlet along North Carolina 's Outer Banks. It joins the Pamlico Sound with the Atlantic Ocean and separates Bodie Island from Pea Island, which are connected by the 2.8-mile (4.5 km) Marc Basnight Bridge that spans the inlet. As one of the few access points to the ocean along this stretch of coast, Oregon Inlet is a major ...
The current Bodie Island Lighthouse (pronounced “body island”) is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It stands 156 feet (48 m) tall and is located on the Roanoke Sound side of a portion of a peninsula that is the first part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Bodie Island. Coordinates: 35.85°N 75.58°W. Bodie Island (/ ˈbɒdi / BAH-dee) is a long, narrow barrier peninsula that forms the northernmost portion of the Outer Banks. The land that is most commonly referred to as Bodie Island was at one time a true island, but in 1811 Roanoke Inlet, which had separated it from the Currituck Banks in the ...
December 23, 1975. Oregon Inlet Station is a historic lifesaving station located near Rodanthe, Dare County, North Carolina. It was built in 1897 by the United States Life-Saving Service and remodeled in 1933 and 1970. It is a 1 1/2-story, Shingle Style rectangular frame building with a lookout tower. It has a porch that surrounds the building.
A view of the Kure Beach Pier from the boardwalk. It was first built in 1923 by L.C. Kure. Hans Kure's son, L.C. Kure, built the first public fishing pier on Kure Beach in 1923. Kure relatives still run the pier today. [20] In 1933 the Dow Chemical Company and the Ethyl Corporation built a plant near Kure Beach for extracting bromine from seawater.
July 22, 2024 at 5:30 AM. A decade ago, Jordan Hennessy was a 19-year-old state legislative aide making roughly $33,000 a year in the office of a Republican state senator representing Dare County ...
Topsail Island (/ ˈtɑːpsɪl /, TOP-sill) is a 26-mile (41.8 km) long barrier island off the coast of North Carolina, roughly equidistant between the barrier islands of the Crystal Coast and the beaches of the Cape Fear region, lying south of Jacksonville, North Carolina and Camp Lejeune. The northeastern edge of the island is the New River ...
Ocracoke Inlet. Coordinates: 35°03′51″N 76°00′58″W. View from Portsmouth U.S. Life-Saving Station overlooking Coast Guard Creek and Ocracoke Inlet. Shores of Ocracoke Island can be seen in the background. Ocracoke Inlet (/ ˈoʊkrʌkoʊk /) [1] is an estuary located in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States that separates ...